Arboeden Eco Retreat

An eco retreat documented across its accommodation and natural setting, where the surroundings are as much the product as the rooms.

Costa Rica Eco retreat 360° virtual tour
Arboeden Eco Retreat 360° virtual tour by YouSee360
Arboeden Eco Retreat — Costa Rica

What this property needed

For an eco retreat the setting is not the backdrop to the offer, it is the offer. Someone choosing Arboeden is choosing to be in a particular kind of place, and the accommodation is only one part of what they are buying. That makes conventional property photography a poor fit: a room photograph deliberately crops out everything around the room, which is precisely the part that matters here.

How we captured it

We captured the accommodation and the grounds, then built a tour that moves between them continuously — cabin to trail to surroundings — so the relationship between the built and the natural parts of the property is preserved rather than edited out. Information hotspots sit on the property so a visitor can understand what they are looking at without a caption underneath.

What we delivered

  • 360° photography of accommodation and grounds
  • Interactive tour connecting interior and exterior
  • Information hotspots on the property
  • Embeddable tour for booking pages

The problem this solves

For an eco property the setting is the offer. A tour that moves from cabin to trail shows what a room photo leaves out.

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How the tour gets used

The tour is embeddable, which is the point: it is designed to sit on the booking page where the decision is actually made, not in a separate gallery a visitor has to go looking for. A guest deciding between eco properties can compare what the places genuinely feel like instead of comparing two sets of similarly-styled photographs.

Common questions

What was captured at Arboeden?

The accommodation and the surrounding grounds, connected in a single interactive tour that moves between interior and exterior, with information hotspots on the property.

Why capture the grounds and not just the rooms?

Because for an eco retreat the grounds are the product. A tour that stops at the doorway leaves out the reason someone chose the property.

Can the tour be embedded on a booking page?

Yes — it is delivered as an embeddable tour intended for exactly that placement.

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